I'm still getting my head round it, but I've proved that Xara is very useful when creating texture maps for Poser figures.

Poser is that tool for creating 2 and 3-D people.

Clothes are constructed from a specification of size and shape (not within Poser) and then modified with a combination of, among several things, 'bump maps' (the relief pattern on a surface), and 'texture maps' (the colour and surface pattern).

With Xara's layer, transparency and brush abilities, it is a good tool for creating new maps; you place the default map in one layer, and then draw on new layers. After exporting to TIF or JPG, you then render the person etc in Poser, picking up the new map files.

I am expecting to use Xara too when post-processing files - adding details and shading over the top.

Has anyone else tried this? Or perhaps this will be a thread for the new 3D forum.

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